How Different Might Our Life Be?

Meditations on Christ in the Psalms

February 20, 2023

How Different Might Our Life Be?

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

    Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

Psalm 139:13-14 (NRSV)

God loves us with an everlasting love!

God accepts us unconditionally, just as we are!

God embraces us with tenderness beyond our comprehension!

If we truly believed God’s love for us, if we truly accepted God’s acceptance of us, if we truly reached out to “press on to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of (us).” (Philippians 3:12 NRSV), how different might our life be?

Our God is multifaceted in His splendor. Most often, God’s attributes are identified as omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), and omnipresence (present everywhere). He is also omnibenevolence (perfect goodness). Psalm 139 extols all these virtues of God, our Savior.

The daily devotional, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young is an outstanding resource to help you live each day in the glory of His embrace.

My Takeaway: When we truly believe, accept and embrace the truth of God’s love for us, we will join the psalmist in an invitation to God, our Father,

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Point out anything in me that offends you,

    and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Psalm 139:23-24

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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